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What You Don't Know [Hardcover]

Lizzie Enfield
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Book Description

3 Feb 2011
You've been together for fifteen years. You've got two gorgeous kids and a great career. All the boxes are ticked. You wouldn't be tempted by a plain, slightly balding man called Graham... Would you?

When Graham Parks walks into Helen Collins' life, the last thing she expects is to fall for him.

He's nothing like her handsome, successful husband, Alex.

But fifteen years is a long time and Helen can't help wondering what it would be like to sleep with someone else. Has Alex secretly been thinking the same thing? As harmless flirtation develops into something far more complicated, Helen's perfect world begins to look shaky.

It's exciting, alluring, all-consuming. But is it worth the risk?

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review (3 Feb 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0755377842
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755377848
  • Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 2.9 x 24.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,397,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Wonderfully funny and warm but also thought-provoking, we loved this'

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'A clever, witty read'

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'For the Alison Pearson market and a sophisticated cut above the norm'

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About the Author

Lizzie Enfield is a journalist and contributor to several national magazines and newspapers. She lives in Brighton with her husband and her three children.  This is her first novel.


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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars There is hope for greying, paunchy men 23 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover
Lizzie Enfield has created a touching and thought-provoking book, which really seems to get inside the minds and hearts of the characters. What You Don't Know brings to life the trials and tribulations of getting older and wondering if life might be passing you by.

Highly recommended.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars great characterisation 20 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover
I really enjoyed this book - it's all about characters being pulled this way and that and it read as being really true to life.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a perfect gift 13 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover
I loved reading Lizzie Enfield's brilliantly observed, funny and thought provoking novel. It's got some great characters and the witty engaging writing makes you really care about what happens to them and their relationships. Lots to talk about with friends. Storytelling that I couldn't put down.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book club read 12 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
Definitely a great read, gripping right from the start and with a few laugh out loud moments.
Full of characters I felt I knew (or would want to!), facing dilemmas/choices/situations familiar to us all of a certain age, with children, jobs,complicated daily balancing acts...Left me wondering what choice I'd have made...
Highly recommended for book groups (with copious amounts of wine to ease the sharing of your own "white lies"!)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this now!! 11 Feb 2011
A Kid's Review
Format:Hardcover
Oh yes, this really is a funny book.Loved it.
But also touchingly relevant and exploring many of the conumdrums we are faced with as our children age and our relaionships mature(?).
This is sure to become one of those books that everyone is talking about.
Read it now, before yor friends do!
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Read, think and enjoy 11 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover
Choc full of winningly recognisable characters, relationships and predicaments, What You Don't Know is a witty and thoughtful precautionary tale of marriage once the first flush has worn off. Lizzie Enfield writes with deft and warm honesty about the feelings, dilemmas, misunderstandings and temptations that can seep into a relationship when the need to focus on each other shifts down the priority list of family life. Read it, think and enjoy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars What we are thinking? 11 Sep 2011
By Joanne D'Arcy TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
To the outside world, Helen has everything a gorgeous acting husband Alex, two perfect children Emma and Jo, a job as a journalist that she enjoys so why does she threaten to risk it all.

Meeting Graham Parks an ex-Army soldier when interviewing him regarding his book, Helen suddenly starts to feel things that she has never felt before. Why does she feel this way about a plain looking, balding man who is everything that her husband is not? Thoughts start to come and go, and the book is devoted to this will she give in and find out if things could be different after all this time.

I found the book very much a book of thoughts. It was if we were in Helen's mind as she went over all the ifs, buts and maybes. The excitement of receiving text messages or emails and knowing you were the only one who knew. The justification of the lies made to seem like truths so conscience is clear as appoints are made, lunches are taken, brief flitting encounters are held.

Helen knows she has everything and will lose it all? But whilst she has caught herself up in this cycle of thoughts, around her others are having their own crises. Alex's role in the daytime soap has got bigger and there is a new actress, well known who seems to be threatening the equilibrium that Helen thinks her and Alex have, despite Helen's own thoughts. These thoughts create situation where this none and a reason for her flirtation could now be justified.

Helen's friend Katie does what Helen is afraid to do and with consequences which makes Helen realise everything she has can be lost on one action. Katie is as much as Helen is caught in her web of thoughts and I think this parallel story could have been developed more, than it was, by the end it left me wanting more.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars What You Don't Know 5 Mar 2011
By Amy
Format:Hardcover
'What You Don't Know' is Lizzie Enfield's debut novel. The story tells of Helen Collins, a woman in her forties, with a actor husband and two young children. When Helen finds herself developing feelings for another man, she begins to ponder the thought of acting on these feelings. The majority of this book focuses around this notion and Helen questionning her loyalty to her husband, Alex and her morals.

I did find the subject matter to be rather interesting and enjoyed the book much more than I thought I would based on the book's blurb. This is because I thought it was all handled in a much better way than many books handle such a subject and also I think it was done in a more mature and possibly realistic way.

I would however have liked there to have been epilogue at the end of the book as the story did seem to come to a bit of an abrupt end and I would particularly have liked to have found out what happened to Katie (Helen's best friend), maybe a few months down the line.

Aside from that this book is interesting and thought-provoking and one I would happily recommend.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A really engaging read
I picked up Lizzie's second book in my local library. It was the cover and title which caught my attention. I enjoyed the book and found it a very easy read. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tilly Tompkins
5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent and perceptive.
Having stumbled across Lizzie Enfield I felt compelled to write a brief review of her superb debut novel "What You Don't Know". Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ian Kirkpatrick
5.0 out of 5 stars what you don't know
Lizzie has written about the trials and tribulations of married life in a thought provoking way with witty, truthful honesty. A superb read can't wait for the next book. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Louise Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved, loved, loved it!
I loved this book so much that I still think about the characters and wonder what they are doing as if they have become old friends of mine. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Yvonne T
5.0 out of 5 stars Close to home
I'm puzzled as to why an earlier reviewer thinks this is a paean to adultery. In fact it's the opposite - an intelligent and amusing look at the pressures on modern marriages,... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Ali
5.0 out of 5 stars What You Don't Know
Intelligent, witty, honest and a jolly good read. I couldn't put it down. a charming take on "brief encounter" but bang up to date.
Published 18 months ago by turnip
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
I loved this book - I think it appeals to all women of my age! Been married for a bit and wondering what's going on! It's funny and moving
Published 18 months ago by carla
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, wise, surprising...
Lizzie Enfield's book is funny, wise and surprising.
Funny because it made me laugh out loud, a lot.
Wise because it has a lot to say about the way we live today. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Craig Melvin
5.0 out of 5 stars Warm and wise
This book really took me by surprise. It's not a run of the mill chick lit tale of errant husbands, but a warm and wise novel that deals with serious issues about what it is to be... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Araminta Hall
5.0 out of 5 stars BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR!!
I LOVED THIS BOOK FROM THE BEGINNING TO END. A REALLY CLEVER WITTY LOOK AT MARRIAGE AND THE JOURNEY IT TAKES US ON. Read more
Published 18 months ago by LUCY
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